Date of issue: December 2022 DIN EN ISO 7010/A4, A5 and A6: Graphical symbols - Safety colors and safety signs - Registered safety signs - Amendment 4 to 6 Three supplemented drafts of DIN EN ISO 7010 have been published. The standard deals with safety colors and signs for accident prevention, fire protection, protection against health hazards and for escape routes. [...]
Date of issue: June 2022 DIN ISO 24495-1: Plain language - Part 1: Principles and guidelines DIN ISO 24495-1 has recently been published as a draft. The standard contains principles and guidelines for creating documents in plain language. Four principles are defined for this purpose: Relevance, Findability, Comprehensibility, Applicability. These are intended to make it easier for the creator of a document [...]
Date of issue: February 2022 DIN EN ISO 15223-1: Medical devices - Symbols to be used with medical device labels, labeling and information to be supplied - Part 1: General requirements A new version of Part 1 of DIN EN ISO 15223 has been published this month. It specifies requirements for symbols to be used on medical devices. This part of the [...]
A fundamental issue when creating instructions for use is defining the target groups. Only when it is clear who is supposed to do what with a product can target-oriented instructions be created. Instructions for everyday products such as a coffee machine or a cell phone must inform users about everything they need to know to use, maintain and [...].
Date of issue: May 2020 DIN ISO 26162-1: Management of terminology resources - Terminology databases - Part 1: Design This standard specifies general principles for the creation of terminology databases. It is intended to enable the creation, processing and use of high-quality terminology. The target group of this standard are terminologists, translators, interpreters, technical writers and language planners. The standard can be used for the creation [...]
Issue date: October 2019 DIN EN ISO 3166: Codes for the names of countries and their subdivisions - Part 1: Codes for country names A new draft of DIN EN ISO 3166 has been published this month. The standard deals with country codes, which are also used, for example, to identify language versions of documents and other [...]
As regular readers may have noticed, there hasn't been much news in the world of standards for a long time. With the start of the new year, however, we are once again coming across one or two standards that are worth mentioning. Showers with a difference DIN EN 62947 (VDE0705-2947) seems interesting here. This standard deals with "Toilet seats with electric [...]
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Issue date: November 2017 VDI 4500-6: Technical documentation - Documentation process - Publishing VDI Guideline 4500-6 has been available as a draft since this month. The guideline looks at the entire publication process within technical documentation. To this end, the guideline deals with the management of content, the production, management and distribution of the publication through to archiving [...].
Date of issue: October 2017 DIN ISO 3864-2: Graphical symbols - Safety colors and safety signs - Part 2: Design principles for safety signs for application to products A revised version of DIN ISO 3864-2 is now available as a standard. DIN ISO 3864-2 has been adopted unchanged from ISO 3864-2. Furthermore, the changes made in May [...]
